Comments on: Gonzales Watch Concludes http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/ A Fresh Look at News, Politics and History Sat, 19 May 2012 04:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Literary Monthly http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1039 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:25:46 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1039 You and I have a very different view of reality. I see a dying baby in Darfur and think - I did that, I’m responsible. I allow the world to be run by big Bush and little Bush. I see the children and old people in Palestine, Baghdad, and all parts of our sad little world. We could educate the stupid, but don’t. We could preserve and care for our dying planet, but don’t. Distribute our great wealth with more equity, so that none are desperately poor and pathetic and hopeless. We could tap the limitless potential that all people have, and no people use. Yet we massacre children and old people, we slaughter the bounty of our planet in our oceans, and forests, and grasslands. And those who do so, don’t care if they are shamed, despised, or if one of them is forced to resign. Halliburton has moved to Dubai. It’s a done deal. America is run by defense contractors who are given our $10 million every hour, while we haggle over the price of books. These same corporations own the news media, and thus shape the thinking of the public. It has always been so, and always will be...unless we do everything in our power to change that. There is no brave new world unless we create it. Look all around you, we are responsible for this. In chess, your opponent will always sacrifice his pawn to take your castle. You and I have a very different view of reality. I see a dying baby in Darfur and think - I did that, I’m responsible. I allow the world to be run by big Bush and little Bush. I see the children and old people in Palestine, Baghdad, and all parts of our sad little world.

We could educate the stupid, but don’t. We could preserve and care for our dying planet, but don’t. Distribute our great wealth with more equity, so that none are desperately poor and pathetic and hopeless. We could tap the limitless potential that all people have, and no people use.

Yet we massacre children and old people, we slaughter the bounty of our planet in our oceans, and forests, and grasslands. And those who do so, don’t care if they are shamed, despised, or if one of them is forced to resign. Halliburton has moved to Dubai. It’s a done deal. America is run by defense contractors who are given our $10 million every hour, while we haggle over the price of books.

These same corporations own the news media, and thus shape the thinking of the public. It has always been so, and always will be…unless we do everything in our power to change that. There is no brave new world unless we create it. Look all around you, we are responsible for this.

In chess, your opponent will always sacrifice his pawn to take your castle.

]]> by: admin http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1038 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:49:24 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1038 LitMonthly, while I share your general disgust with the current administration, doesn't the fact that Gonzales and Rumsfeld have been pushed out and Bush thrown into a defensive posture on Iraq prove that we do have, at least, more say than the Soviets under Stalin? There are so many valid points to make about the conduct of this administration -- why should protesters like us muck up our message with hyperbole like this? It only makes the anti-war side of the debate seem as dishonest as the pro-war side. LitMonthly, while I share your general disgust with the current administration, doesn’t the fact that Gonzales and Rumsfeld have been pushed out and Bush thrown into a defensive posture on Iraq prove that we do have, at least, more say than the Soviets under Stalin?

There are so many valid points to make about the conduct of this administration — why should protesters like us muck up our message with hyperbole like this? It only makes the anti-war side of the debate seem as dishonest as the pro-war side.

]]> by: Steve Plonk http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1037 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:48:57 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1037 Since, I, too, am no fan of Gonzales, I thought it was mighty tasty that old "Speedy Gonzo" threw in the towel. I have marked my calendar for September 17th. Just a few dozen days away. Point was well taken in the discussion as to why Gonzo waited so long. Some folks just "diehard". Since, I, too, am no fan of Gonzales, I thought it was mighty tasty that
old “Speedy Gonzo” threw in the towel. I have marked my calendar for
September 17th. Just a few dozen days away. Point was well taken in the discussion as to why Gonzo waited so long. Some folks just “diehard”.

]]> by: Literary Monthly http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1036 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:26:54 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2007/08/27/gonzales-watch-concludes/#comment-1036 You were right, I was wrong. Though glad to see Gonzo go. It's funny, we think we have some control over our government in a presumed 'democracy.' Doesn't seem like we have any more say than the Soviets under Stalin. They don't kill us for criticizing them, but they sure as hell don't represent our wishes either. It's sad. You were right, I was wrong. Though glad to see Gonzo go. It’s funny, we think we have some control over our government in a presumed ‘democracy.’ Doesn’t seem like we have any more say than the Soviets under Stalin. They don’t kill us for criticizing them, but they sure as hell don’t represent our wishes either. It’s sad.

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